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NASA Extends LADEE Dust Explorer for Bonus Lunar Science
Depiction of NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory as it approaches lunar orbit.Credit: NASA Ames/Dana Berry
LADEE, NASA’s latest lunar orbiter, is getting a new lease on life and will live a little longer to study the mysteries of the body’s tenuous atmosphere, or exosphere, while hugging Earth’s nearest neighbor even tighter than ever.
NASA has announced that the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission will be granted a month long extension since the residual rocket fuel is more than anticipated due to the expertise of LADEE’s navigation engineers.
This is great news because it means LADEE’s three research instruments will collect a (…)
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/108940/nasa-extends-ladee-dust-explorer-for-bonus-lunar-science/
